Thorne: Why not, Mother? Donna's made me happier than I've been in a very
long time.

Stephanie: Oh, I'm sure she showed you a really, really good time,
sweetheart, but you don't commit the rest of your life to someone just 'cause
you sleep with them for a couple of nights in Vegas! What happens there is
supposed to stay there. This is baggage you do not need.

Thorne: Really? And how would you know what I need, Mother?

Rick: Ashley, Phoebe is the most important thing in my life. I need her, and
I need to get her back.

Ashley: Okay, but what if you can't?

Rick: Well, then I've lost two really incredible women, and that makes me the
biggest idiot on the face of the planet. I love her.

Ashley: Okay, what if she does forgive you? Are you prepared to wait?

Rick: Yes.

Ashley: Really?

Rick: Listen, I'm glad that Phoebe didn't want to have sex, okay? And she
wanted to wait. Because if I made love to Phoebe and then she found out that we
made love, I mean, I don't think that I would ever be able to make up for
something like that.

Ashley: I understand what you're saying, but I'm not really talking about the
past.

Rick: Okay.

Ashley: I'm asking about the future.

Rick: Right, and I see my future with Phoebe.

Ashley: Yeah, and everything that means.

Rick: Yeah. It means that I'm going to have to jump through hoops.

Ashley: Yeah. Big ones.

Rick: Listen, after everything I put her through, I deserve that.

Jackie: Oh, Nicky, these projections, they need to be updated.

[Knock on the door]

Employee: The file you asked for, Ms. Marone? I put the estimates for the
last quarter in there, as well.

Nick: Michael, can you get us the overseas projections, too, would you?

Employee: For the next quarter or the next two?

Nick: Make it the next two. Thanks.

Employee: Right away, Mr. Marone.

Nick: Mother, did you send Brooke a wind-up bird?

Jackie: What?

Nick: Never mind.

Jackie: Oh, Nicky. I know you're concerned about Brooke. I mean, we all are.
Every day that she spends without her children, it just breaks her heart a bit
more, and Stephanie's not helping. She rubs her nose in it every opportunity.
Don't worry, Nicky. She's about to get hers.

Nick: Get hers how?

Jackie: Well, everyone has a weak spot. Even Stephanie has an Achilles heel.
We thought it was the company. Donna had another idea.

Stephanie: "I don't know what you want"? What is she doing? Selling you some
bill of goods that I don't care about you? Thorne, I understand. You've lost
Darla and Taylor in the same year. It's been a horrendous year for you. Honey,
anybody would be vulnerable after a year like that.

Stephanie: Look, there's an emptiness in your life, and you need to fill it,
but not with this!

Thorne: Why not, Mother? Donna makes me happy.

Stephanie: Oh, don't be foolish. This is just temporary.

Thorne: Everything is temporary. Everything comes to an end, Mother.

Donna: Not soon enough for her.

Thorne: Look, the point is -- I'm happy, okay? Well, at least I was until you
showed up.

Stephanie: And what about your daughter? How's she supposed to react to this?

Thorne: Donna is Hope and R.J.'s aunt. Aly has probably spent more time with
her than she has with anyone in this family.

Stephanie: This is irresponsible behavior on your part! It's selfish. It's
reckless. Your daughter deserves a proper Mother, a stable home, not some pole
dancer! Thorne, I'm not going to let you drag that little girl through this
mid-life crisis of yours.

Thorne: Excuse me?

Donna: What are you going to do, Stephanie? Take her away the same way you
took Hope and R.J. from Brooke?

Stephanie: Did you hear that? That's what this is really all about. Do you
understand? She doesn't want you. She wants her revenge against me because she
believes that I took her sister's children away from her, so she wants to take
you away from me. That isn't going to happen!

Constantine: Well, the website’s going crazy. It's blowin' up. Won't be long
before we find out who they like more. You and me or you and Rick.

Ashley: You know, I don't think that Phoebe's playing games. I don't think
this is some punishment or a test.

Rick: No, it's not at all. Phoebe doesn't do that.

Ashley: She's confused.

Rick: I know. I'm not. I know that she's the one I want to be with. I just
need to convince her of that.

Ashley: Yeah, well, you can't make her feel a certain way.

Rick: I know, but that's -- that's what I love about Phoebe, Ashley. She --
she doesn't give up her convictions just to make her boyfriend happy like other
girls her age do. Phoebe's not like that. She wants to wait to have sex, and
she's not going to back down.

Ashley: And she won't.

Rick: And I'm not going to ask her to. You know, just -- seeing the look on
her face when she found out about us. It made me realize what little respect I
had for our relationship because what, we weren't having sex? I mean, making
love to someone, it is what it is, and it's amazing. But sometimes a
relationship can be even more if you have the power to say no, if you have the
power to restrict. She must have trusted me so much to do that. And I'll do
anything -- anything and everything to earn her trust back again.

Ashley: You know what? I think you should just tell her exactly what you told
me. I don't see how she could help but forgive you.

Stephanie: Don't you see what she's doing? She's trying to drive a wedge
between us. She wants you to be angry with me. Stop! Stop and think clearly!

Donna: Just because he does not agree with you --

Stephanie: Stop it!

Donna: Don't you give me orders, Stephanie! And you stop treating Thorne like
he's some disobedient toddler! He is a grown man! And he will make his own
decisions about his own life.

Thorne: And I have. And I don't have to justify them to you or to anybody
else.

Stephanie: Could you? You give me one rational explanation for this
engagement!

Thorne: Good-bye, Mother.

Stephanie: Can you answer me?

Thorne: Until we can have a productive conversation about this, you and I
have nothing to say to each other. Now, take the car. Aly and I will drive dad
back to the house.

Stephanie: I'm waiting for your father!

Thorne: You should go. Now!

Donna: Thank you. Thank you, thank you. Nobody has ever stood up for me like
that. You are my hero.

Constantine: Let me guess. Long face. You can't imagine singing on stage with
Rick that night.

Phoebe: Not with the way things are, no.

Constantine: And how are things?

Phoebe: Well, the guy I loved, who I thought loved me, cheated on me with the
woman my father is now dating. And if that weren't insane enough, I might have
to do a concert with him. I'm sorry, Constantine. If that happens, I don't know
if I'll be able to go through with it.

Eric: All right, I have a chocolate milk here. There you go. And there's a
coffee for me.

Donna: Stephanie totally lost it. And she tried to rip the ring right off my
finger!

Jackie: Oh, I hope that Thorne stopped her.

Donna: Oh, he threw her out of the house.

Jackie: With a little encouragement from you?

Donna: Not as much as you'd think.

Jackie: Really?

Donna: You should have seen him, Jackie. The way he stood up for me.

Jackie: So inside that pussycat beats the heart of a lion?

Donna: In more ways than one.

Jackie: So Vegas was actually more that you'd hoped for?

Jackie: And making Stephanie feel miserable, well, that can't feel that bad
either, can it?

Donna: It just feels incredible. Being with Thorne and getting my revenge on
Stephanie. It's all working out even better than planned. Jackie? Hello? You
planning on strangling me, Stephanie?

Stephanie: No, that means I'd have to touch you.

Donna: Good. Because I only want one Forrester touching me.

Stephanie: Well, don't run out and buy that wedding dress too quickly or he's
going to wise up. You and your silly little plan to get revenge on me. You're
using my son. Ever occur to you that you might be the one that's being used?
Again?

{Constantine singing}

Every time I see you I'm exalted I wanna write you letters every day that
double rainbow ain't got nothing on you you've done my head in but I feel okay
and every time I think about you several thousand times a day I can feel this
pull like a river towards the ocean, tell me do you feel this way I got myself
caught in a situation I tried to lock myself inside my room that only made it
sink in that much deeper it only made me wanna be with you and every time I
think about you several thousand times a day I can feel this pull like a river
towards the ocean tell me do you do you feel this way

Constantine: Just stop there. Why don't you give us a minute?

Engineer: All right.

Phoebe: Hey.

Constantine: Hey. You miss him?

Phoebe: I miss what we had. I just -- I'm not sure we can get it back again,
you know?

Eric: You and Donna are getting married?

Thorne: Yeah, but we haven't told Aly, so keep that under your hat, okay?

Eric: Thorne, I had no idea the two of you were even going out together.

Thorne: No, it's a recent thing.

Eric: How recent?

Thorne: Dad, we clicked, okay? What does it matter if it happened six months
ago or yesterday?

Eric: Well it doesn't. Although it's probably going to matter to your Mother.

Thorne: Yeah. The way she lit into Donna, I don't know if she'll ever accept
her.

Stephanie: Don't think that that ring is a guarantee, because it isn't.

Donna: Thorne wants to be with me.

Stephanie: He just wants to sleep with you.

Donna: He proposed.

Stephanie: Well, there's a wedding chapel and a hooker on every street corner
in Vegas. If he really wanted to marry you, you'd already be married.

Donna: He wanted to wait for Aly's sake.

Stephanie: Oh, is that the excuse he gave you? Using his little girl? I guess
you can't argue with that, can you?

Donna: It wasn't an excuse, and Thorne is not playing me. He's not like that.

Stephanie: No, he's not, but you're playing him. You've got him snowed, but
he'll wake up. He'll sober up after this long weekend, and he'll see you for
exactly what you are. Just another Logan slut.

Donna: I know what you're trying to do. You're trying to make me feel
insecure, undermine my self-confidence, but you're the one who's scared, and you
should be.

Stephanie: Oh really? Well, I've dealt with you Logan girls for a long time.
I'm not worried.

Donna: Not one with nothing to lose. Brooke couldn't beat you because she
wanted your approval. I don't. I hope you feel sick every time you see me across
the family dinner table. Year after year after year. I'll be there. Christmas.
Thanksgiving. Birthdays. You know, Eric's is coming up, isn't it? Maybe I'll
jump out of a cake for him. I bet you he'd love that.

Stephanie: You may not want my approval, but you certainly need Thorne's, and
attacking me this way isn't going to get it.

Donna: Are you sure about that? Because, you know, maybe he's sick of you,
too? He sure seemed fed up today.

Stephanie: Oh, my boys will always come around.

Donna: Thorne is all mine now, Stephanie, and he will be for the rest of your
miserable life. Oh, and it will be miserable. I'll be the one smiling at your
funeral. This ring may not be a guarantee I'll have a lifetime of satisfaction
and happiness, but it does guarantee you won't. Are you getting the picture? You
had it so good with my sister. Now you're stuck with me. Donna Logan, your worst
nightmare.

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